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A Web-Based Flexible Communication System in Radiology
A web-based system for rapid multidirectional communication has been created in the Radiology department at San Francisco General Hospital. The system allows messaging among radiology attendings, residents, and technologists, as well as other members of the hospital community, such as Emergency Depa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21152949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10278-010-9351-0 |
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description | A web-based system for rapid multidirectional communication has been created in the Radiology department at San Francisco General Hospital. The system allows messaging among radiology attendings, residents, and technologists, as well as other members of the hospital community, such as Emergency Department physicians and nurses. Instead of being tied to a particular workflow, this system provides a flexible communication infrastructure which can be easily adapted for different functions and user roles. The system has so far been configured to successfully support the standard “wet reading” workflow, to support marking and tracking of critical results, as well as multiple educational and quality improvement workflows. In the 19 months of operation, the system has gained over 1,800 users (virtually all providers at our institution), it has been accessed by radiologists over 39,000 times and by non-radiologists over 34,000 times. It has become an integral part of the radiology department operations and non-radiology clinical workflows. Unlike most existing softwares, our system is not a task-specific application, but a multipurpose communication system. It is able to effectively accommodate multiple workflows and user roles through configuration (without additional programming). This flexibility has helped this system to be rapidly and widely adopted within our enterprise. The extended reach of the system enables improved monitoring and documentation of workflows, helping with management decision making, and quality assurance. We report a successful radiology communication system based on the principles of flexibility and inclusiveness of users inside and outside the radiology department. |
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spelling | pubmed-31805352011-10-04 A Web-Based Flexible Communication System in Radiology Rybkin, Alexander Valentine Wilson, Mark J Digit Imaging Article A web-based system for rapid multidirectional communication has been created in the Radiology department at San Francisco General Hospital. The system allows messaging among radiology attendings, residents, and technologists, as well as other members of the hospital community, such as Emergency Department physicians and nurses. Instead of being tied to a particular workflow, this system provides a flexible communication infrastructure which can be easily adapted for different functions and user roles. The system has so far been configured to successfully support the standard “wet reading” workflow, to support marking and tracking of critical results, as well as multiple educational and quality improvement workflows. In the 19 months of operation, the system has gained over 1,800 users (virtually all providers at our institution), it has been accessed by radiologists over 39,000 times and by non-radiologists over 34,000 times. It has become an integral part of the radiology department operations and non-radiology clinical workflows. Unlike most existing softwares, our system is not a task-specific application, but a multipurpose communication system. It is able to effectively accommodate multiple workflows and user roles through configuration (without additional programming). This flexibility has helped this system to be rapidly and widely adopted within our enterprise. The extended reach of the system enables improved monitoring and documentation of workflows, helping with management decision making, and quality assurance. We report a successful radiology communication system based on the principles of flexibility and inclusiveness of users inside and outside the radiology department. Springer-Verlag 2010-12-09 2011-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3180535/ /pubmed/21152949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10278-010-9351-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Article Rybkin, Alexander Valentine Wilson, Mark A Web-Based Flexible Communication System in Radiology |
title | A Web-Based Flexible Communication System in Radiology |
title_full | A Web-Based Flexible Communication System in Radiology |
title_fullStr | A Web-Based Flexible Communication System in Radiology |
title_full_unstemmed | A Web-Based Flexible Communication System in Radiology |
title_short | A Web-Based Flexible Communication System in Radiology |
title_sort | web-based flexible communication system in radiology |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3180535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21152949 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10278-010-9351-0 |
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